Mckenna Grace
Birthdate: Jun 25, 2006
Birthplace: Grapevine, Texas, USA
Mckenna Grace is a veteran child actor who has developed into a talented and prolific teenage actor with over two dozen feature credits since her debut in director/producer/co-writer Denis Henry Hennelly’s apocalyptic drama, Goodbye World (2013), with Adrien Grenier and Gaby Hoffmann.
Grace was cast in a supporting role in writer-director Richard Bates Jr.’s horror comedy, Suburban Gothic (2014), starring Kat Dennings and Matthew Gray Gubler, followed by a supporting role in the Bruce Beresford-directed drama, Mr. Church (2016), with Eddie Murphy starring in his first feature role in four years.
Grace took on her first voice role in an animated feature with The Angry Birds Movie (2016), produced by Columbia Pictures and Rovio Animation. Grace continued to earn castings in major movies with a role in director/producer/writer Roland Emmerich’s $390-million-grossing sequel, Independence Day: Resurgence (2016), with Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, and Bill Pullman. Mckenna Grace had her first co-starring feature role in the Mark Webb-directed drama from Fox Searchlight, Gifted (2017), in which Grace played an intellectually gifted child with Chris Evans and Octavia Spencer, grossing $43 million worldwide.
Grace’s busy 2017 continued with roles in the $63-million-grossing comedy, How to Be a Latin Lover (2017); in director-writer Franck Khalfoun’s horror sequel, Amityville: The Awakening (2017), with Jennifer Jason Leigh and Bella Thorne; and in an attention-getting turn as the young Tonya Harding in the Craig Gillespie-directed biopic, I, Tonya (2017), starring Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Julianne Nicholson, Bobby Cannavale, and Allison Janney, and grossing $54 million.
Mckenna Grace met Steven Spielberg for the first—and possibly, not last—time in a role in Spielberg’s sci-fi Ready Player One (2018), starring Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Mark Rylance, and Ben Mendelsohn, and earning a $592 million global gross. Grace again played the younger self of the main character (in this case, Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel) in directors-writers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s Marvel Studios’ Captain Marvel (2019), with Samuel L. Jackson, Jude Law, Ben Mendelsohn, Djimon Hounsou, Annette Bening, and grossing $1.13 billion worldwide.
Grace’s second co-starring role was in the comedy-drama, Troop Zero (2019), with Viola Davis, Jim Gaffigan, Mike Epps, and Allison Janney, and directed by the British duo, Bert (Amber Templemore-Finlayson) and Bertie (Katie Ellwood). Mckenna Grace landed the starring role opposite Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson in the hit horror sequel ($231 million gross), Annabelle Comes Home (2019), from producer James Wan and writer-director Gary Dauberman.
Starting with Scoob! (2020), Grace performed in more voice roles in animated features, including DreamWorks Animation’s disappointing Spirit Untamed (2021), and a co-starring role in director-writer Cal Brunker’s sequel, PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie (2023), with Marsai Martin, Kim Kardashian, and Taraji P. Henson, and released by Paramount Pictures/Nickelodeon Movies.
Grace played support in another Wan-produced and directed horror movie, Malignant (2021), with Annabelle Wallis and Maddie Hasson. Grace was cast in another leading role in co-writer/director Jason Reitman’s hit sequel ($204 million global gross), Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), with Carrie Coon, Paul Rudd, Finn Wolfhard, and Ernie Hudson; Grace also co-starred in the the sequel, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024), reuniting original cast members Bill Murray, Dan Ayckroyd and Ernie Hudson, under co-writer Gil Kenan’s direction and grossing $202 million for Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Releasing.
Grace starred in director/writer/producer Dan Kay’s indie American drama, What We Hide (2025, originally titled Spider & Jessie), with Jojo Regina, Forrest Goodluck, Malia Baker and Jesse Williams, released by Gravitas Ventures, and then Grace joined the cast of director/writer/producer Amy Wang’s comedy drama, Slanted (2025), with Shirley Chen and Fang Du, premiering in 2025 in competition at the South by Southwest Film Festival and released in 2026 by Bleecker Street and backed by Fox Entertainment Studios.
Grace co-starred with Mason Thames, Sean Gunn, Fred Armisen and Jenna Fischer in director/writer Lee Kirk’s Green Day-themed musical comedy, New Year’s Rev (2025), produced by Live Nation Productions, and then Grace co-starred with Allison Williams, Thames and Dave Franco in the Josh Boone-directed movie version of Colleen Hoover’s Regretting You (2025), produced by Constantin Film and released by Paramount Pictures.
Mckenna Grace was part of the ensemble of director/story writer Jan Komasa’s thriller, Anniversary (2025), co-starring Diane Lane, Kyle Chandler, Madeline Brewer, Zoey Deutch, and Phoebe Dynevor, and released by Lionsgate/Roadside Attractions. Grace then joined the existing cast of the original movie for the Blumhouse Productions sequel, Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (2025), with Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, Wayne Knight, Teo Briones, Matthew Lillard, and Skeet Ulrich under Emma Tammi’s direction, and released by Universal Pictures.
Grace jumped aboard another sequel, Scream 7 (2026), co-starring Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Mason Gooding, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Joel McHale, and David Arquette under the direction of the franchise creator, Kevin Williamson, produced by Spyglass Media Group/Project X Entertainment/Outerbanks Entertainment, and released by Paramount Pictures. Grace reprised her voice role as the cockapoo Skye in director/co-writer Cal Brunker’s Canadian animated franchise sequel, Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie (2026), with the voice cast of Ron Pardo, Jennifer Hudson, Terry Crews, Snoop Dogg, Bill Nye, Paris Hilton and Meredith MacNeill, released by Paramount Pictures/Nickleodeon Movies (U.S.)/Elevation Pictures (Canada).
Mckenna Grace starred in the Hunger Games prequel, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (2026), adapted by writer Billy Ray from Suzanne Collins’ 2025 novel, co-starring Joseph Zada, Whitney Peak, Jesse Plemons, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Maya Hawke, Elle Fanning, Kieran Culkin, Lili Taylor, Billy Porter, Glenn Close and Ralph Fiennes under Francis Lawrence’s direction, and released by Lionsgate.
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Personal life
Mckenna Grace was born and raised in the Dalles-Fort Worth suburb of Grapevine, Texas, by parents Ross Burge (orthopedic surgeon) and Crystal Grace (medical sales representative). Grace is an only child. While participating tap, ballet, gymnastics, beauty pageants, and cheerleading, Grace secured an agent as a child actor and landed her first TV commercial when she was five years old. Grace’s early success in being cast in series and features led to her family moving to the Los Angeles area in 2013. Mangold’s estimated net worth is $2 million.
Mckenna Grace Movies
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- 2025 |
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2
asLisa
Anyone can survive five nights. This time, there will be no second chances.
- 2025 |
Anniversary
asBirdie Taylor
A provocative thriller about a very close-knit family that is torn apart as a new movement, "The Change," envelops the country.
- 2025 |
Regretting You
asClara Grant
A mother and daughter must grapple with what's left after a devastating accident reveals a shocking betrayal and forces them to confront family secrets, redefine love, and rediscover themselves.
- 2024 |
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
asPhoebe Spengler
When the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second ice age.
- 2023 | Crater
- 2023 |
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
asSkye
A magical meteor falls in Adventure City and gives the PAW Patrol superpowers, transforming them into the Mighty Pups. But they face their most powerful challenge when Humdinger teams up with a mad scientist to steal their powers.
- 2022 | A Friend of the Family: True Evil
- 2021 |
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
asPhoebe
When a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.
- 2021 |
Spirit Untamed
asAbigail Stone
Lucky Prescott's life is changed forever when she moves from her home in the city to a small frontier town and befriends a wild mustang named Spirit.
- 2021 |
- 2019 | Troop Zero
- 2019 |
Annabelle Comes Home
asJudy Warren
While babysitting the daughter of Ed and Lorraine Warren, a teenager and her friend unknowingly awaken an evil spirit trapped in a doll.
- 2019 |
Captain Marvel
asYoung Carol (13 Years Old)
Carol Danvers becomes one of the universe's most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races.
- 2017 |
- 2017 |
Amityville: The Awakening
asJuliet
A desperate single mother moves with her three children into the notorious, supposedly haunted, real-life Amityville house to try and use its dark powers to cure her comatose son. Things go horribly wrong.
- 2017 |
How to Be a Latin Lover
asArden
Finding himself dumped after twenty-five years of marriage, a man who made a career of seducing rich older women must move in with his estranged sister, where he begins to learn the value of family.
- 2017 |
- 2016 | Mr. Church
- 2016 |
Mr. Church
asIzzy
Unique friendship develops when a girl and her dying mother retain the services of a talented cook - Henry Joseph Church. What begins as a six month arrangement instead spans into fifteen years and creates a family bond that lasts forever.
- 2015 | Frankenstein
- 2015 | Russell Madness
- 2013 | Goodbye World
Facts About Mckenna Grace
The Crown: Mckenna Grace was crowned “Tiny Miss Texas” in a statewide beauty pageant.
No Schoolrooms: Grace has never attended a brick-and-mortar school, since she has either been home-schooled or had tutors on the set.
Student-Actor: For a college-level course on media aesthetics, Mckenna Grace wrote papers about the streaming version of The Handmaid’s Tale (2017-present) while studiously avoiding any mention of her performance or her role in the series.
Singer: Grace, along with an extremely busy acting career in films, streaming, and television, has maintained a steady singing career since 2021, when she had a released single and music video tie-in with Ghostbusters: Afterlife, and released five music videos in 2022 and 2023, four non-album singles in 2022 and 2023, and the album titled Bittersweet 16, released by Photo Finish Records in 2023.
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